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Die Antwoord - Fatty Boom Boom (2012)

Drag-Queen Lady Gaga is on an African concrete jungle Safari, seeing the wild life such as shop keepers, black panthers, hyenas and car jackers when she passes the South African band that rocketh the hardest. Die Antwood bringeth with the war-paint and illustrated dance-gears we've seen previously in "Evil Boy" and "I fink u freeky" (Their signature style was lacking from Babys on fire) Then we pause for a moment to watch the drag-queen Gaga give birth to a prawn star. Yes.

Artist: Die Antwoord

Album: TEN$ION

Label: ZEF RECORDZ
Music video and story concept: Ninja and Yo-landi Vi$$er

WAIT HOLD UP. Like so many other Die Antwoord videos, the visual references are ofte very WTF and decidedly south african (including mocking the world as to what outsiders may THINK is south african). There's panthers, lions and hyenas in this video, there's snakes and rats in their others, there's always at some point a prawn/grasshopper like a visual nod to District 9 and a comment of the townships/urban life in a world of change. Yolanda who has cats eyes and black skin is a panther, or panther/hyena hybrid with the lions mane of her hair here than anything else. They show humans without teeth, legs, in elephant mask and rat-coats otherwise, always saying "we are animals". They have black people, albinos and white people dancing around their videos. This is not your American blackface, and to project your cultural visual moral standard on the rest of the world is naive at best, culturally colonial at worst.